On one hand, Fuse’s real-time inventory tracking and responsive projections allow us to be nimble in our inventory management and react quickly. On the other hand, it has significantly lightened our workload as the breadth of our SKU offering required painstaking, time-consuming analysis. Because of Fuse, we’re able to better use our capital and our time.

-Sarah Pierson, Co-founder

Prior to using Fuse, Margaux experienced overstocks in non-core, low volume SKUs tying up thousands of dollars of capital.

AT A GLANCE

Hundreds of SKUsRapidly scaling start-up2 month lead time

THE STORY

Margaux is dedicated to quality and customer experience above all else. Given the variety of product offered in many colors and sizes, it was hard to keep track of historical performance and leverage that data to forecast demand. Margaux wanted to make sure that each and every customer that came to the site could get the exact product in the exact size she wanted. This dedication to quality resulted in overstocking lower volume SKUs, tying up tens of thousands of dollars of capital. Without additional visibility into the data, it was a tough challenge to avoid. With Fuse, Margaux can now easily see their sales data, inventory levels, open POs and place their inventory buys with confidence.

At the same time, the company was experiencing stock-outs in its most popular, best selling colors like black and navy. Given long lead times and poor visibility into the data, it was difficult to properly forecast demand and re-order core colors in a timely manner. As a result, some of the most popular SKUs were back-ordered, creating a huge missed revenue opportunity. By seamlessly automating Margaux’s demand forecast and connecting it to current inventory levels, Fuse can proactively alert the operations team to impending stock-outs.